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VIDEO. 85 years old, 7 hours on the ground for lack of an ambulance: in the United Kingdom, the serious consequences of a health system on the brink

2023-01-18T17:04:51.016Z


In Wales, Keith Royles, 85, had to wait 7 a.m. for an ambulance lying on the ground in his garden in the rain. An “ind


An elderly man wrapped in a tarp dozes in the rain, livid and motionless.

A voice says he has cancer.

In these images, captured in September 2022, it is Keith Royles, 85, who lies in his garden.

The sequence shows his unbearable wait: 7 hours on the ground, before being taken care of by an ambulance.

"They could have sent someone to examine me, but no one came at all", laments this retiree, in front of the walker he must still use as soon as he has to move around in his pavilion in Bodelwyddan, a small rural town in Wales, UK.

"How undignified and how sad to see someone my father's age left in this situation," fumed his daughter, Tina Royles.

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Revolted, Tina Royles decides to film her father's ordeal under her little green garden tarp.

A sequence that shocked British public opinion, while the NHS, the country's public health system, has been on the verge of chaos for several months.

Across the Channel, one in five patients treated by an ambulance takes more than an hour to be admitted to the emergency room.

In November, more than 37,800 people had to wait more than 12 hours in these same emergencies.

The previous month, 44,000 patients suffered the same fate.

An association of British emergency physicians estimated that this excessive congestion of hospitals would cause the death of 300 to 500 people per week.

"It's the state of the NHS", denounces Tina Royles in her video.

“I needed to say it,” she confides, a few months later.

“Because it is.

The NHS is broken”.

In this Welsh family, Keith, his wife and Tina's sister are nurses.

Hazel, the mother, spent 26 years in Glan Clwyd Hospital across the road.

The former nurse complains about the decline of the NHS: “They have reduced the number of beds in each unit, in each service.

So of course it will block and it will clutter the emergency room.

"We can go to any hospital in this country, right now, and we would see the same situation," adds his daughter.

Source: leparis

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